This week, Pope Francis excommunicated all gang members…
…except for one.
He’s too dreamy.
- Old Print Articles: Boxing promoter Tex Rickard’s wake conducted at Madison Square Garden (1929) + WWI thins out the herd of circus freaks (1921).
- Featured Videos: Stanley Siegel conducts an infamous interview with a soused Truman Capote (1978) + Muhammad Ali and Wilt Chamberlain agree to fight, thankfully never do (1961) + Michael Crichton visited the Today Show to discuss his new novel, Jurassic Park (1990) + The UNIVAC computer predicted the next American President (1952).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Why are Grandma’s gums so sore? + New Jersey–traffic jams and tarantulas + You can have one kidney for that iPad.
- Photographer Julius Wasser has cataloged L.A. life For 50 years.
- Amazon’s humming warehouses are hubs of artificial intelligence.
- Private tech firms are trying to build their own nouveau Bell Labs.
- Jill Lepore challenges popular notions about market disruptions.
- Elon Musk wants to establish a Martian city by 2026.
- Julian Assange, that mixed blessing, did an AMA at Reddit.
- Slavoj Žižek defends Assange in is customary over-the-top way.
- Casey Kasem’s countdown show stubbornly resisted the digital revolution.
- Doctors and lawyers, not just laborers, may be replaced by robots.
- Brazil is so soccer crazy that Pele got away with horrible politics.
- The U.S. isn’t good at soccer because our best athletes play other sports.
- Ted Williams daughter Claudia speaks about the cryonics controversy.
- Synthetic biology, that great and scary thing, has many applications.
- A storied 1¢ stamp just sold for $9.5 million. Why so much?
- Novelist Daniel Keyes was ahead of the curve on cognitive enhancement.
- Cockfighting is still legal in Puerto Rico.
- Some people think world wars have a bright side.
- Smart tech is changing the nature of books, which might be a good thing.
- Disruption hasn’t interrupted industries that may be killing us.
- Non-traditional surgery would be needed for Mars travelers.
- The Spring of Thomas Piketty stretches into Summer.
- Economists see the future of our technological world in sharp contrast.
- Peter Singer thinks it unethical to buy overpriced art.
- In the 1950s, Japan had a rough entry into the American auto market.
- Suburban American malls are Digital Age ghost towns.
- One of the Frenchest paragraphs ever.
- A brief note from 1926 about a wild woman.
- A brief note from 1901 about a hard worker.
- A brief note from 1911 about ancient wheat.
- This week’s Afflictor Keyphase searches.